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The RF Workbench / Re: Stretchyman “40W TX” Failure Investigation and Remediation
« on: May 31, 2020, 1037 UTC »
I know very little about electronics and designs and I certainly don't want to get in the middle of any war here but would just like to add my experience with Stretchyman and his transmitters.

I have been using Stretchy's original xtal TX for 3 1/2 years.

Also I have had the 40 watt GAN TX for 1 1/2 years. Yes I have always powered up at 12v and then ramped up to 24v. Just seems to make sense.

I have an order in with Stretchyman for his new 100 Watt transmitter, hopefully that will happen soon.


I have countless hours on both transmitters and have had nothing but a positive experience with Stretchyman and his transmitters.
I will buy every design he comes up with because I know he stands behind his work. What more could you ask for.

There are several of his TXs on the air here in the US and I highly recommend them. They are easy to operate and sound fantastic!

I thought people should know the positive side also.

-IR




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Shortwave Pirate / Re: ION Radio 5165 AM 2101 UTC 18 April 2018
« on: April 19, 2020, 0854 UTC »
Thanks for listening everyone and a special Thanks to the Azimuth Coordinator at Radio Illuminati for relaying the show!

reports to ionradioshortwave@gmail.com for a eQSL

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 5165 AM 2133 UTC 1 April 2020
« on: April 01, 2020, 2202 UTC »
2201 ID and email from AC into Billy Squire. S9
2229 Joe Walsh.

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Other / Re: Pirate Radio multi station NET
« on: March 29, 2020, 1000 UTC »
A pirate radio net sounds interesting for sure.

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Illuminati 5165 AM 1747 UTC 26 MAR 2020
« on: March 26, 2020, 2152 UTC »
2149 Music playing, S7 with deep fades. Sounding good!
2213 Poor/fair reception now with a few good peaks.
2219 The Police.
2240 Just above the noise now, great music!

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 AM 1647 UTC 12 Jan 2020
« on: January 12, 2020, 1705 UTC »
1705 OK copy on na5b SDR in DC. Partial India Radio, Yoko Ono interview...
1719 Music playing, S7 or so.

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Equipment / Re: The SW200 LPAM, Part #15, Amateur Radio AM, Audio Processor.
« on: January 12, 2020, 1306 UTC »
The SW200 is interesting. Seems like it would be OK for higher power also, as read in the 5th paragraph here:

https://www.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=532050&article_id=3209662&view=articleBrowser&ver=html5#

I'm getting a little tired of having to pre-record and pre-process all of my audio. I may give this thing a try.

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Ion Radio 6930.2 AM 1408 UTC 31 Oct 2019
« on: October 31, 2019, 1504 UTC »
Thanks for listening to "Dracula", CBS Mystery Theater from 1974 at 5 watts.

Happy Halloween!

-IR

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Shortwave Pirate / Radio Ronin Shortwave 6925 AM 2300 UTC 17 SEPT 2019
« on: September 17, 2019, 2307 UTC »
2300 Music playing, OM talking into rock tune. Some good S9 peaks but a lot of fade and noise. Sounding good.
2310 Radio Ronin Shortwave ID? Tough copy. Thanks for the correction Skip!
2317 Blues tune. Some sideband chatter, "Hola...Hola".
2324 Down in the noise now.   >:(

Thanks for the tunes.

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: KDOG 6925 USB 1006 UTC 31 Aug 2019
« on: August 31, 2019, 1121 UTC »
1119 Janis Joplin playing or a parody of, S1 or so signal but decent copy.
1126 "In The Middle Of The Night", "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" - parodies.

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Shortwave Pirate / Skunkhole Radio 6936 LSB 2237 UTC 28 AUG 2019
« on: August 28, 2019, 2238 UTC »
2237 Great signal, S7 or so. Music playing.
2241 ID Skunkhole Radio.
2245 ID
2246 OFF

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Skunkhole Radios 6936 LSB 2330 UTC
« on: August 27, 2019, 2346 UTC »
2344 Eagles playing, S5 good copy. A bit noisy.
2346 DJ on the mic.

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European Pirate / Re: Laser Hot Hits 6210 AM 1634 utc 27 Aug 2019
« on: August 27, 2019, 2330 UTC »
2329 Amazing signal tonight. A bit noisy but good copy.

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Halfwise 6955 AM 2200 UTC 27 Aug 2019
« on: August 27, 2019, 2208 UTC »
2207 Carrier with a little audio, I'll keep checking.

2235 Still the same at home but nice S9 peaks on na5b SDR in WA DC.  :)
2243 Music still going. S9 on peaks, fade and static crashes now.
2251 Queen playing, a few S9+10 peaks.

Thanks Halfwise.

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio International 6868 USB 2107 UTC 7 May 2019
« on: May 07, 2019, 2145 UTC »
2145 Music playing, S1 or so but decent copy.
2346 ID
2156 ID with light Jazz playing. Noise picking up a bit.
2106 Another ID
2221 Het killed copy here  >:(

6845
2242 ID, at S5 or so now. Nice music.
2245 New tune , solid S9 now. Sounds real nice on the Kenwood.   :)
2259 ID. S9+, good to see foF2 cooperating.
2316 ID

Thanks for the Music MRI!

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